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The first thing that I have to say is that this one confused me to no end. I'm going to call out Guitar World at this point to say that they are wrong about this one. They have the right song (Sweet Jane) listed at number 81, but the wrong artist, wrong album, and the wrong solo. They have Lou Reed as the soloist and the version of Sweet Jane from The Velvet Underground's Loaded album. There is NO SOLO in Sweet Jane from the Loaded album. None. Not even a short one.

What it does have is this weird little effects laden, 14 second, three (four?) guitar loop before the song starts. You can listen to it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHxLawJONeQ THIS IS NOT a solo by any stretch of the imagination. I think the clue is in the word "solo" first of all. If you personally think that this noise qualifies as a solo, good on ya, but I don't.

Second of all, there actually is a second and very famous version of Sweet Jane from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal album from 1973. This one has an equally famous and absolute killer 3 1/2 minute solo intro by Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. Gibson guitars top 50 solos of all time has this solo at number 25 of all time and rightly so. It's 3 1/2 minutes of 70's rock guitar bliss. No tricks, no tapping, no shredding, etc... just amazing playing from two of the seventies greatest unsung guitar players. They went on to form the guitar core of some of Alice Cooper's most popular albums, Billion Dollar Babies and Welcome to my Nightmare and Hunter went on to play with Peter Gabriel.

THIS is the solo that I will play. Not the loopy one (though I had figured it out and was ready to go with it before I had a change of heart). I'll repeat, 4 guitars looping on top of one another with heavy effects is not a solo in my books.

Though I just mentioned above that this solo is quite famous (mostly in guitar circles), it's apparently not famous enough and it may be new to many of you. When I first started to learn it, I looked for some tutorials. There are none. Despite my hate for tabs, I looked for tabs as well. None. Covers on Youtube? Only ONE that I could find, where the guy only roughly plays the first half of the solo. This one will be a first for me I think. The ONLY full Youtube cover of a fairly famous solo. Weird.

But WHY?? This solo is fucking amazing! It starts with a bit of a southern rock vibe with elements of prog rock thrown in the middle. It's as if The Allman Brothers teamed up with Yes to produce an instrumental. It's really well written and super interesting to listen to (and a hell of a lot of fun to play!). It actually sounds nothing like Lou Reed, nor should it. It was a shelved instrumental written by Steve Hunter that they pulled out as a bombastic live intro to Sweet Jane to open each show.

I had my issues with this solo. Number one being that, as well as no tutorials or tabs, there is also NO backing tracks to this one anywhere. Zero. Looked everywhere. So I went old school as I often do and learned the whole thing by ear. I had to play along with the original track which presents a whole new set of challenges. Especially timing. Though I panned the original guitar out of the mix as much as I could, and increased my volume, you can still here it, so I had to be pretty exact with the notes and the timing or it would sound off. I did my best and I think it sounds alright considering. Lots of key changes in this one as well. Really great stuff.

Also, this is two guitar players playing off of one another for 3 minutes. I could have recorded both guitars separately but I thought that I would take a different approach. I like to do one take for these solos and not video edit shit in. So, I imagined myself in my band days as the only guitar player (As I often was) and my band wanted to cover this song (I actually did cover this song in one of my bands, but not this version). What would I do? I would blend the two solos into one as best I could and add a bit of my own flair, and that's what I did here. Fairly happy with this one despite the lack of a backing track.

Recorded this one with a mic for the first time. I usually interface. A friend loaned me his Boss Katana 50 for the week and I couldn't get the interface hooked up properly, so I mic'd it up and went that route. Played on my favorite guitar, the black Jackson (she really needs a name at this point I think) through my korg multi effect pedal dialed into a really nice classic rock tone. Just had the Katana on a clean channel so it didn't play much of a part in the tone on this one. Lovely amp though.

Well, that's it for today. Hope you like this one. I sure as hell do. This solo deserves to be much higher on the list IMO, and If I'm wrong about my assessment of Guitar World's pick here, and they really feel that this solo shouldn't even be on the list and that weird little loopy thing should, they they need their collective heads examined.

I see a lot of metal-oriented guitars posted on here and figured I'd post something a little different. This is a custom tornado that I had built for me by Saul Koll. The body is chambered and came from a huge piece of walnut he'd had in his shop for a long while but never had a project for and it turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. Combined with an amazing rosewood neck and individual volume controls for the neck and bridge pickup this is the only guitar I will ever need. Beautiful warm tones for a more jazz-forward style of playing. Recently switched from an AC-10 to a silver-face custom deluxe reverb because I needed as much clean headroom as I could get (not to mention the reverb and vibrato run through both channels on this model which is great because the custom side has a much fatter sound with more low-end than the vintage side), and I'll never run out with this thing. I'm sure my neighbors in my building hate me ;)

This was the first time changing the pickup in any of my guitars so I was nervous but my girlfriend helped me solder the new wires and it went smoothly. I had to sand parts of the pickguard down though because it didn't fit perfectly but I got it to fit in nicely! It has the seymour duncan neck invader in the bridge position true to tom's signature model. Overall it sounds great and I'm really happy with it! https://imgur.com/a/pcAI2F0

I just picked up this L0-16 yesterday, and I'm really digging it so far! I play a lot of blues and slide, and this guitar is perfect for that. It has a great warmth and midrange growl to it, yet doesn't sound boxy and still sounds good for strumming. I'm a somewhat smaller dude, so the 00-sized body feels really comfortable. I also love the old timey black-and-white tuxedo look.

It's a pretty cheap/low-end guitar in the grand scheme of things, but this is the first halfway decent, solid-top acoustic that I've owned after 14 years of primarily playing and gigging with electric guitars. I'm looking forward to putting in some serious acoustic time with this thing.

This could end up being one of the dumbest questions I've ever asked, but I'm too confused to let it go. Sorry if I sound like an absolute donut:

Does the gain knob on the front of an amp serve the same purpose as an Overdrive pedal? Is an overdrive pedal just there to push the front end of your amp harder instead of having to crank the gain all the way up? What about the "level" knob?

As I type the question, I feel that I am misunderstanding what an OD pedal adds to the chain, even though I use them very often.

I think my tone is awesome, the playing itself is pretty clean, not a lot of ghost notes... But I can't help but think of when I hear my own voice on a recording.... the playing just sounds like crap!! Every solo seems to sound the same... Even different styles of music, there's still the "go to" notes/phrases..... Anyone else have this issue?

First off, I want to thank you guys. I had a previous post where you all were incredibly helpful and I took it all in to learn more from it. You're an awesome community!

So, I've unlocked the fretboard! I finally understand CAGED method and decipher chords up and down the neck. HOWEVER, it takes me forever because I don't actually know what all the notes are on the board!

Please, is there any tips/secrets/tricks/w.e to remembering where to find the root notes that I'd be looking for? Are we just remembering them from playing (practicing) them constantly? Is there a simple math formula? I'm leaning towards that maybe people just knowing what's being barred at every fret, but hoping there's something easier to help.

I have isolated that my amp noise is coming from my guitar - stock SG. Noise is proportional to volume, so higher at 10 and gone at 0. It also almost disappears when I touch the cable jack. is there anything I can do to reduce this? Amp, Vox Ac4C1, is very quiet on its own without the guitar plugged in.

I was asked to play at a private event awhile back at BB King's in Nashville. I walked into this thing with no clue what tunes we'd be doing, who else was in the band, etc. I agreed to do it as a favor for a friend, but I was a bit curious how it would turn out. None of the other musicians in the band knew any more than I did, so every time a singer came on stage (there were several that night) and called a tune, we had to wing it. Johnny Neel (Allman Brothers) was a on keys. Tim Gonzales was on harp. Great band.

When Thomas Gabriel walked up on stage and they announced he was Johnny Cash's grandson, I thought, "Oh great, another lame celebrity relative" but he blew us all way. He a very kind and humble guy as well. Did the drug thing, 7 years in prison, but has his act together now and it doing the music thing.

So while I was setting up to have a little practice session I started hearing a little chatter from my amp, and when listening closer there was someone talking. Is it normal to have radio frequency like this? Here’s a sample .

I’ve been looking on Reverb for a good pre-owned Epiphone Wilshire Phant-O-Matic, and found one. But from the pictures shown, the output jack seems damaged to me. The seller says it’s just a crack but it just seems a more off than that. Is it worth getting? Is the output jack going to be a problem?

Just picked up a Jackson DK2 Eerie Swirl and replaced it's neck with a maple one that i had lying around. Pretty happy with the guitar since they don't make this finish anymore and it's stock pickups are all Seymour Duncan.

So yeah the title sums it up really, I've just started to play Lenny by SRV and would very much like to add some drums and the bass which is going on the actual song to my cover. Do you use a software or do you just play the other insturments to add the other insturments while covering a guitar piece? Thanks!

I'm trying to put my guitar into Drop B tuning, and I understand that this will require a different intonation setup. I can get all of the strings to be perfectly intonated, with the exception of the low B string. It's constantly sharp at every fret, especially the 12th, and I've tightened the saddle to the point of not being able to screw it in any further. It's still a few cents sharp.

Besides the saddle, I've also tried adjusting the action and truss rod. Lowering the action any further or reducing the necks' forward-bow gives me fret buzz starting at around the 9th fret, so that's not really an option (unless I were to then raise the action more? idk). I also put in a new B string just to see if it was a case of a bad string, but no luck. I'm unsure of what else to try. Would love some advice if anyone else has experience setting up a guitar for drop B.

I bought a Marshall JCM800 (2205) with a 1960a cab by a friend a couple of years ago. And since I'm a student the amp is at my parents house in my old room. And the thing plays like heck.. Way too loud, so my question is:

Is there a device like "Universal Audio OX Amp Top Box" (https://www.uaudio.com/hardware/ox.html) (Test at NAMM 2018) which is cheaper? My only wish is that I can crank the volume on the top, (such that I can get the maximum out of the top) but have a modest volume on the cabinet.